Comments on: A Simple Trick to Turbo Charge Learning a Foreign Language. http://www.familyhack.com/2008/01/15/a-simple-trick-to-turbo-charge-learning-a-foreign-language/ Get the most out of your time, money and mobility. Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:16:44 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Michael Davis http://www.familyhack.com/2008/01/15/a-simple-trick-to-turbo-charge-learning-a-foreign-language/comment-page-1/#comment-4871 Michael Davis Thu, 31 Mar 2011 19:57:00 +0000 http://www.familyhack.com/2008/01/15/a-simple-trick-to-turbo-charge-learning-a-foreign-language/#comment-4871 Sentolki replied via email with the following: Here is a page with a few links and the subjects: http://www.listenlive.eu/spain.html I especially recommend the public broadcasting system: RTVE (http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/). Thanks Sentoki! Sentolki replied via email with the following:

Here is a page with a few links and the subjects:
http://www.listenlive.eu/spain.html

I especially recommend the public broadcasting system: RTVE (http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/).

Thanks Sentoki!

]]> By: Michael Davis http://www.familyhack.com/2008/01/15/a-simple-trick-to-turbo-charge-learning-a-foreign-language/comment-page-1/#comment-4869 Michael Davis Thu, 31 Mar 2011 08:02:04 +0000 http://www.familyhack.com/2008/01/15/a-simple-trick-to-turbo-charge-learning-a-foreign-language/#comment-4869 Wow! That is a great idea. Thank you so much for the wonderful comment. I would love to have links to Spanish radio stations. Wow! That is a great idea. Thank you so much for the wonderful comment. I would love to have links to Spanish radio stations.

]]> By: Sentoki http://www.familyhack.com/2008/01/15/a-simple-trick-to-turbo-charge-learning-a-foreign-language/comment-page-1/#comment-4868 Sentoki Thu, 31 Mar 2011 01:25:18 +0000 http://www.familyhack.com/2008/01/15/a-simple-trick-to-turbo-charge-learning-a-foreign-language/#comment-4868 Maybe you don't read this because you post the article very long time ago. Anyway my trick to learn some more english (I'm spanish, so sorry for my english, I have to improve it ) is to hear english in on-line radios. I did't listen, I just hear the sound without paying attention to the speach or words, because I was working meanwhile and at the begining I can't even understand anything. They were music radio stations, like virgin radio or something like that, I like to work with music, so the main time it is pop music but between the songs theare are some speach, interviews, news and trafic highligthts, and at the begining I can't barely understand anything. But someday, I was surprised that I understood a complete trafic report, that is the most speedy report: there were a congestion in M16 north because a lorry had an accident... unwittingly I had understood everything!!!. So if you want some on-line spanish radios, please e-mail me and I will be glad to send you some links. Maybe you don’t read this because you post the article very long time ago.

Anyway my trick to learn some more english (I’m spanish, so sorry for my english, I have to improve it ) is to hear english in on-line radios. I did’t listen, I just hear the sound without paying attention to the speach or words, because I was working meanwhile and at the begining I can’t even understand anything.

They were music radio stations, like virgin radio or something like that, I like to work with music, so the main time it is pop music but between the songs theare are some speach, interviews, news and trafic highligthts, and at the begining I can’t barely understand anything. But someday, I was surprised that I understood a complete trafic report, that is the most speedy report: there were a congestion in M16 north because a lorry had an accident… unwittingly I had understood everything!!!.

So if you want some on-line spanish radios, please e-mail me and I will be glad to send you some links.

]]> By: Michael Davis http://www.familyhack.com/2008/01/15/a-simple-trick-to-turbo-charge-learning-a-foreign-language/comment-page-1/#comment-4485 Michael Davis Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:48:32 +0000 http://www.familyhack.com/2008/01/15/a-simple-trick-to-turbo-charge-learning-a-foreign-language/#comment-4485 Glad it helped. I use a combination of Pimsleur and this trick. I've also recently discovered the Michel Thomas lessons. I like them too. Glad it helped. I use a combination of Pimsleur and this trick. I’ve also recently discovered the Michel Thomas lessons. I like them too.

]]> By: Todd http://www.familyhack.com/2008/01/15/a-simple-trick-to-turbo-charge-learning-a-foreign-language/comment-page-1/#comment-4484 Todd Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:16:35 +0000 http://www.familyhack.com/2008/01/15/a-simple-trick-to-turbo-charge-learning-a-foreign-language/#comment-4484 Michael, Thanks for the terrific tip. It sounds so simple and obvious, but it seems to help me. I find I have hard time with Pimsleur because my concentration breaks down. So now after listining to a lesson I try to use what you showed and that helps me retain more. Michael,

Thanks for the terrific tip. It sounds so simple and obvious, but it seems to help me. I find I have hard time with Pimsleur because my concentration breaks down. So now after listining to a lesson I try to use what you showed and that helps me retain more.

]]> By: Saffron http://www.familyhack.com/2008/01/15/a-simple-trick-to-turbo-charge-learning-a-foreign-language/comment-page-1/#comment-2687 Saffron Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:00:12 +0000 http://www.familyhack.com/2008/01/15/a-simple-trick-to-turbo-charge-learning-a-foreign-language/#comment-2687 OMG!!! My brain just woke up!!! I am so happy my mom sent me a link to your site...it's like my brain was underwater in a murky lake...and I just came up for air!!! Hooray for you!!! OMG!!! My brain just woke up!!! I am so happy my mom sent me a link to your site…it’s like my brain was underwater in a murky lake…and I just came up for air!!! Hooray for you!!!

]]> By: bill hansen http://www.familyhack.com/2008/01/15/a-simple-trick-to-turbo-charge-learning-a-foreign-language/comment-page-1/#comment-2111 bill hansen Sat, 23 May 2009 02:50:11 +0000 http://www.familyhack.com/2008/01/15/a-simple-trick-to-turbo-charge-learning-a-foreign-language/#comment-2111 I installed language learning cd's on an IPOD so when I can and when I feel like it I listen to that instead of a steady diet of music only...It does help I installed language learning cd’s on an IPOD so when I can and when I feel like it I listen to that instead of a steady diet of music only…It does help

]]> By: Debbie http://www.familyhack.com/2008/01/15/a-simple-trick-to-turbo-charge-learning-a-foreign-language/comment-page-1/#comment-2048 Debbie Fri, 22 May 2009 00:51:34 +0000 http://www.familyhack.com/2008/01/15/a-simple-trick-to-turbo-charge-learning-a-foreign-language/#comment-2048 The number one key to learning a foreign language is motivation. A student can buy every home study course available and still not learn if he doesn't put the time in. I'm a Spanish teacher and I use a lot of Spanish pop songs to teach my students, and it seems to work pretty well. There isn't a lot of pressure and listening to music is fun. Students will often tell me words or how to say something and when I ask them how they know it, they'll say, "Don't you remember, it was in that song you taught us". A very current popular artist right now, who has relatively easy songs to learn is Juanes (from Colombia). The number one key to learning a foreign language is motivation. A student can buy every home study course available and still not learn if he doesn’t put the time in.

I’m a Spanish teacher and I use a lot of Spanish pop songs to teach my students, and it seems to work pretty well. There isn’t a lot of pressure and listening to music is fun. Students will often tell me words or how to say something and when I ask them how they know it, they’ll say, “Don’t you remember, it was in that song you taught us”. A very current popular artist right now, who has relatively easy songs to learn is Juanes (from Colombia).

]]> By: Leanne http://www.familyhack.com/2008/01/15/a-simple-trick-to-turbo-charge-learning-a-foreign-language/comment-page-1/#comment-1858 Leanne Mon, 18 May 2009 05:22:16 +0000 http://www.familyhack.com/2008/01/15/a-simple-trick-to-turbo-charge-learning-a-foreign-language/#comment-1858 Hi, great site you have here. I, like a lot of people, got here via the "how to get things dropped down the drain" email, and I'm having a lot of fun browsing around. Anyways, I really like http://chinesepod.com for learning chinese, and I got a bunch of kids videos in English and chinese, like Dora the Explorer. They are made for Chinese kids to learn English, but they are great the other way around too... just have them on in the background or watch them with your kids! Hi,
great site you have here. I, like a lot of people, got here via the “how to get things dropped down the drain” email, and I’m having a lot of fun browsing around.

Anyways, I really like http://chinesepod.com for learning chinese, and I got a bunch of kids videos in English and chinese, like Dora the Explorer. They are made for Chinese kids to learn English, but they are great the other way around too… just have them on in the background or watch them with your kids!

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